Mega Force
Mega Force is a 1982 scrolling shooter for the Atari 2600, based on the Hal Needham film Megaforce that reached cinemas in June of the same year. It was published by Fox Video Games, the game label of…
Play ▸20th Century Fox, the Hollywood film studio, entered the Atari 2600 market in 1982 with its own game label, Fox Video Games. The idea was to turn films from the studio’s catalogue into cartridges, but most of the games were made by outside teams. Sirius Software, a computer game company, supplied a large share, including Fast Eddie, Deadly Duck, Worm War I and Fantastic Voyage. Doug Neubauer, who had left Atari, programmed Alien, Mega Force and M*A*S*H as an independent contractor. Some cartridges simply borrowed a film title, as The Earth Dies Screaming and Spacemaster X-7 did. The label closed in 1983 during the video game crash, and several finished or nearly finished games were never sold.
The site has 22 games under this name, released cartridges and prototypes alike. A few to start with:
Alien (1982): a maze game based on Ridley Scott’s film, with a flame thrower and a bonus stage.
Fantastic Voyage (1982): David Lubar’s scrolling shooter set inside a patient’s bloodstream.
Fast Eddie (1982): Mark Turmell’s platform game about grabbing prizes that float above you.
M*A*S*H: fly wounded soldiers to safety and then operate against the clock as Hawkeye Pierce.
Bank Heist (1983): rob banks in a getaway car while every second costs you fuel.
Meltdown: an unreleased reactor game, thought lost until a copy turned up in 2004.
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Mega Force is a 1982 scrolling shooter for the Atari 2600, based on the Hal Needham film Megaforce that reached cinemas in June of the same year. It was published by Fox Video Games, the game label of…
Play ▸Fantastic Voyage is a 1982 vertically scrolling shooter for the Atari 2600, based on the 1966 20th Century Fox science fiction film. It was programmed by David Lubar at Sirius Software and published by Fox Video Games in…
Play ▸Fast Eddie is a 1982 platform game designed by Mark Turmell at Sirius Software and published for the Atari 2600 by 20th Century Fox. Eddie runs along the floors of a building, climbs ladders and jumps to snatch…
Play ▸The Earth Dies Screaming is a first-person space shooter for the Atari 2600, designed by Dan Thompson at Sirius Software and published by Fox Video Games, the game label of 20th Century Fox. It borrows its name from…
Play ▸The Entity is an unreleased Atari 2600 game from 20th Century Fox, programmed by Mark Klein and based on the horror film of the same name. Instead of fighting the film's invisible force, you push it: by sliding…
Play ▸Deadly Duck is a 1982 shooting game designed by Ed Hodapp at Sirius Software and published for the Atari 2600 by 20th Century Fox. You play a duck whose bill doubles as a gun barrel, defending your pond…
Play ▸In Atari 2600 Crash Dive, you are tasked with scoring as many points as possible by destroying various enemy targets, including ships, helicopters, planes, giant sharks, stingrays, squids, angler fish, and lobsters. You must accomplish this before running…
Play ▸Crypts of Chaos is a first-person dungeon crawl for the Atari 2600, designed by John W. S. Marvin and published by Fox Video Games, the game division of 20th Century Fox. You explore underground mazes, fight monsters, rob…
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